The riddle—

My first’s a bond, my second’s weigh;
These own the rest of all my lay;
Busy my third; fourth like the pole,
Whose opposite my fifth makes goal.

is solved by Shackle, Tons, Ant, Arctic Expedition.

[Lieutenant Ernest H. Shackleton, R.N., leader of his South Polar Expedition.]

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For two months at the nets we played,
Ere we were sent to Lord’s;
Alas! the score our champion made
Was what a nest affords.
The crowd in tens of thousands came,
But took scant notice of the game.

The words in italics have the same letters.

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